Since many Americans believe in the wrath of God (Methodists anyway and Pat Robertson) sex in public parks, especially gay sex, will likely lead to negative externalities like earthquakes and volcanoes and plagues of locusts.

When homosexual activists want to add a city to their list of places where they run the show, the organize group sex in public places, such as parks, expecting to go Alinsky on anyone who objects. This is how they created 'The Gay Riviera' in Florida. I guess the Gray Lady is cool with that.

ET1492 said...

If you were having sex on the ground in a park, would you want other people's dogs on leashes or off?

If you were walking barefoot in a park, would you rather step in dog excrement or strangers' sex goo?

Which will give you a disease?

themightypuck said...

Since many Americans believe in the wrath of God (Methodists anyway and Pat Robertson) sex in public parks, especially gay sex, will likely lead to negative externalities like earthquakes and volcanoes and plagues of locusts.

This is equivalent to saying that there is not a single park user who would pay money to be rid of them-- highly unlikely. (In positive economics, a thing is an externality if there's anyone who experiences it as an uncompensated cost, regardless of whether you think they ought to feel that way about it. Pop economics tends to be more judgmental than that.)

VW: bilema. Should I cheat on my girlfriend with another woman, or cheat on my boyfriend with another man?

I think the best definition of an externality is a lazy excuse for a law and eoonomics type to justify big government intervention.

The lamest version of that is Ian Ayers claiming that if you use a laptop in class, and you surfed the web to a site unrelated to class, it would discourage other students, thus, ta-da! an externality!

The gay activist, Bruce Bawer has written articles about how gangs of young muslim guys go through public parks, public bathrooms, and other places gays congregate at, in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities and towns, beating the hell out of gay men. And being gay, the guys getting beaten, dont fight back, so the muslims get away with it.No Pink Pistols groups in Amsterdam, I guess.

Massachusetts State Police will not automatically roust people meeting at roadside rest areas—even people believed to be engaging in sexual activity, according to new guidelines disclosed yesterday.

Having sex in public places such as rest areas, beaches, and parks would not be considered illegal if the activity was adequately hidden from view, according to the two-page order.

The policy was issued to settle a lawsuit brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders on behalf of a gay man who was banned from highway rest stops on Cape Cod. Gays have long complained that they are harassed by police when they gather in public places, said Mary Bonauto, who represented GLAD in the case.

"This order, included in the [State Police] policy manual, is an incredibly positive first step," said Bonauto.

"This is major," said Captain Robert Bird, a State Police spokesman. "The State Police don’t want to infringe upon anybody’s rights and I think this order will help clarify exactly what those rights are."

The plaintiff in the case, called John Doe in court papers, had been convicted a year earlier for having sex with another man in the woods next to a Wareham rest stop.

"We’re not making specific accusations," Bonauto said, "but troopers need to be aware that just because they see something doesn’t mean it’s public activity and a criminal offense — far from it."

The new rules codify informal ones issued by State Police in October 1999, after Middlesex Superior Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn barred police from expelling the Cape man, who is 57, from rest areas.

Bird said yesterday that the new policy "instructs our troopers to follow the way the Supreme Judicial Court has interpreted the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."

The rules make clear that "socializing and expressions of affection" are not considered sexual conduct. And public sexual conduct is not illegal unless there is a "substantial risk" that the conduct will be observed by a casual passerby, the order says.

"There’s a difference between doing it on a pitcher’s mound in the middle of the day and obviously taking steps to secret yourself," said Bonauto.

However, one police source yesterday called the new policy "ludicrous" and predicted troopers will continue to roust gay people from parks and rest stops.

"These rules are lawyer psychobabble," said the source. "They won’t change anyone’s behavior. If someone is doing that in a public place, a rest area, where passersby have access, it isn’t right. And this is not going to change any [trooper’s] approach to enforcing the law."

A good time to talk a little reality about the supposed "oppression" of gays in America.

My closest friend for the past 30 years is a HIV positive gay man who lives the sort of sex life you would expect in Manhattan.

He is no sissy. He's Charles Atlas. His workout regime is spectacular. At the age of 55, he looks like a Greek god.

He doesn't muscle up just for aesthetic purposes. The gay life of mating with a different partner every weekend is fraught with danger.

This is where the "oppression" business is such a lie. It's not hetero men that gay men fear. It's other gay men. When you're getting naked with a different stranger every weekend, you are exposing yourself to considerable risk of being attacked.

The attempt of gay activists to pin the blame for this on "homophobia" and hetero men is damnable. The worst example of this I've ever seen is "Brokeback Mountain," a vicious propaganda motive also designed to deflect the blame onto hetero men. Every generation of kids seems to buy into this lie that hetero men are prosecuting a war of terror on gay men. It's a crock.

Now that a real, as opposed to imaginary, threat to gays exists... the jihadists... I wonder if the stupid rhetoric about "oppression" and "homophobia" in the West will cease.

This is one of the stupider comments I've seen recently, one obviously made by someone who's never walked around any actual parks frequented by actual couples having actual sex -- because if you think piles of used condoms are less disgusting than piles of dog poop, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

Think: how long is a pile of dog crap nasty for -- a day or two? Depends on the weather, sure. But let's say by around day four or five, you wouldn't really be that disgusted by it, even if you accidentally trod on it. Because (let's all say this together, kids), "it's organic and is very quickly broken down into odorless, harmless compost!" (It even does the soil some good.)

A used condom, on the other hand, will last for months and months, and eventually breaks down into a gooey mass that will stick to the bottom of your shoe like used chewing gum.

In San Francisco you can be fined if you're dog takes a crap on the street, but you cannot be fined if YOU take a crap on the street (if you're homeless anyway).

A park where people routinely show up to have sex and leave condoms everywhere is not a park I would care to frequent, or take my kids to. Neither would I care to take my kids to a park where people shoot up, even though their shooting up doesn't inconvenience me as much as this guy thinks dog crap does. Or a park where people go to drink or smoke pot.

It's because of the type of people you find doing these things in public.

May be different in the Netherlands. Just like the people in Germany who drink before noon are a totally different bunch of people from Americans who drink before noon.

That was before self-righteous outrage became a virtue, which was probably the 60s.

A co-worker in the '75 told me of a trip to NYC and how amazed he was to see somebody gathering up his dog's poop. So for Ohio at least that bit of culture had not arrived even in the 70s.

The common 50s sign in cities concerning dogs was "Curb your Dog."

Picking up did not come up.

How well we are trained today!

Data point: my dog poops in the yard and I don't notice it except for the spring thaw, when poop that had been preserved for months by snow appears all at once. It's no different today than it used to be.

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